Chimera (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural chi·me·ras.
  1. a fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
  2. any grotesque monster having disparate parts, as depicted or described in art, legend, fantasy fiction, video games, etc.
  3. a strange, horrible, or impossible idea or figment of the imagination: He is far different from the chimera your fears have made of him.Without equality, unity is a chimera.
  4. anything created by taking parts or aspects of different kinds of things and combining them: We are like an audio-art chimera, in that we act as part literary journal, part music showcase, and part storytelling podcast.
  5. an organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues, such as one produced artificially by combining cells or tissues from different species: Chimeras were generated by splicing West Nile and Zika viruses into the genetic backbone of two different insect-specific viruses.
adjective
  1. being or relating to a chimera or chimeras: The chimera embryos used in this research are sheep embryos containing human cells.
noun
  1. a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a serpent
  2. a fabulous beast made up of parts taken from various animals
  3. a wild and unrealistic dream or notion
  4. an organism, esp a cultivated plant, consisting of at least two genetically different kinds of tissue as a result of mutation, grafting, etc
Chimera (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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